152 Materials! for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Didacti/loii sliiijilc.r and nniiofunii . Zoll. and Mnr. Sy>t. Vorz. 100. 

 Andropogau /i/ifon)iis, I'oxh. FJ. Ind. J. 2")(). 



Singapore: Selotar, Tanglin, Cliangi (liidloy "iO, 1U»;>) ; Xegri 

 Senibilan: Seromban (IJidloy 1001,')), Distril). India. Malaya. Japan. 

 Australia. 



20. Imperata, C'yrillo. 



Perennial grasses with a long subterranean creeping rhizome. 

 Leaves tufted long linear acuminate, l^eduncle tall. Panicle spici- 

 forin, woolly silky sini])le or branched. Spikelets small binate 1-2 

 flowered, lower tiower incomplete or alisent. (iliimes 4. 



Species 1. Europe, Asia and America. 



Panicle spikelike not branched, stamens 2 . . 1. 7. arundinacea. 

 I*anicle distinctly branched, stamen 1 . . 2. /. exaltata. 



1. I. AnrxmxACEA, Cyrillo. PI. Par. Xcap. Fasc. II. 2G. t. 11. 

 T>hizomes very long branched covered M'ith scales. Leaves 1 to (5 feet 

 l<mg |-f wide linear acuminate. Stem 1 to 3 feet, tall slender solid, 

 nodes glabrous or bearded. Panicles .') to 8 inches long very nari'ow 

 spiciform with very short appressed bi-anches. Spikelets shortly 

 pedicelled base and ghimes covered with long white silky haiis. 

 (ilume 1 and II lanceolate acute tliin purjde or green. III much 

 sborter about h or ;'( oblong toothed, IV ovate acute toothed. Palea 

 (jiiadrate toothed. Anthers orange cells divaricate at base. Stigmas 

 long {)lumose j)urple. Kunth. Kniim. PI. 1, 17^. Hackel. Andropoyp. 

 91. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VJ L 10(5. Duthie. Indig. Fodder grass 

 t. 1"). /, Allang, Jungh. Tydschr. Xat. Gc)^. Vll. 295. 7. cijUndrica 

 and /. Koenigii, Beauv. Agrost. 165. ^accharum rylindriruni. Lam. 

 I^]ncycl. L 594. S. dinnduin Koen. S. Kopnir/ii, Petz. lbs. Y. 16. 



Common all over the whole peninsula. Native name " Lalang." 

 .V pestilential giass vci'y dillicull to (^radicate, covei'ing large areas 

 of country and of very raj)itl growth. The leaves are used for 

 thatching, and litter, the silky spikelets for stufting pillows, and the 

 I'bizomos for making a kind of beer and also as a native medicine 

 for wliicli purpose it is exported to China. Distrih. all warm 

 countries. 



2. I. KXALTATA, Brngu. Yoy. Coc]. Bot. 101. Stems (>-: feet tall, 

 stouter than the preceding, no(U's glabrous. Leaves linear acuminate, 

 rather longer and broader. Panicle 14 inches long with several 

 lii'anchcs at the base silky white S])ikel('ts narrow lanceolate ^ inch 

 long bail's >ilky softci' llian in [)icc('(ling. (ihinic I fewer nerved. 

 (Iliinic 111 half as long as (il. II oblong IooHumI. Hack. Monogr. 

 .Vndrop. 99. Jlook. lil. I.e. 107. 7. caudata, Trim. Aleni. Acad. 



